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Successful managers' brain

This section is begun with posing a
question.

Would you prefer to be just a manager
or a successful one?

In the traditional management style,
a manager was defined as a quite one-dimensional, dictator, and arrogant
person. However, by the emergence of some modern managers like Bill Gates,
Steve Jobs, etc. and also, their wonderful success has caused the traditional
definition getting vanished. Additionally, too many books and movies about
these two managers have been published and almost all people know about the
details of their lives and success stories; nevertheless, it is needed to
scrutinize their lives from a new and different perspective.

Inside Steve Job’s head

As you are aware of the fact that a
brain is made of right and left hemispheres which each has its particular
function, and a person’s personality is formed in accordance with the structure
and performance of the both hemispheres.

In psychology, left-brainers are
capable of carrying out logic, exact mathematical computations, and immediate
comprehension; however, right-brainers are sensitive and in favor of
imagination, risk-taking, music, and art.

You, respected manager, when you are
reading the characteristics of left-brainers, don’t you think of yourself ?!!

Now let’s return to Steve Job’s
brain. He explained about his life at Stanford University (the place which he
had left) in 2005 and divided his life into three sections:

1.The Connection among Some
Irrelevant Events:

Steve Jobs was supposed to be adopted
by an educated family as his mother wanted him to study at a university in the
future, but he has been grown up unexpectedly in a family which its members
haven’t got their diplomas. Finally, he went to the university but after six
months, he decided to take a risk and drop out of the university due to his
confusing situation and lack of money to pay the fee. Steve has been always
curious and just for his curiosity he decided to participate in calligraphy
classes at Reed College. Although the classes were totally irrelevant to his
future life, the classes made him an opportunity to design the first Mac in
Touch computer after 10 years. It was the first computer which was created with
artistic and beautiful fonts. Therefore, it can be concluded that the risk of
leaving the university and his curiosity toward learning calligraphy made him
to be creative and his creativity transformed to an unbeatable business
success.

2. Love and Acceptance of
Failure:

At the time he was in charge of Apple
Management Department and in fact he was regarded as the owner of the company.
But he got fired, and he accepted this failure; since his heart acclaimed a
truth into his ears that everything will be all right. The acclamation in every
stage of his life was the main factor which had positive effect on his success.
After 5 years, he founded two well - known and important companies and also met
his wife.

Therefore, Steve wasn’t afraid of
accepting the truth and he tried to overcome what his logic was telling and he
listened to his heart.

3. The Fact of Death

Steve Jobs has been asking this
question every day for 33 years from the time he was 17. “If today were the
last day of my life, would I do the same thing?” Unless the answer wasn’t
positive, he noticed that there’s a need to change.

“Remembering the fact that one day I
will be dead was a kind of significant tool which helped me make decisions in
some difficult situations in my life, because all I have expected from my life,
selfishness, and being ashamed of failure weren’t important in comparison to
death.”

Was Steve Jobs left or right-brained
manager? Undoubtedly, he was one of infrequent managers using the right
hemisphere who are 2.5% in total and that’s why he became a successful manager.

It’s pivotal to note that as
companies get bigger and expanded gradually, left-brainers get superior at
work; therefore, creative people (right-brainers) would leave the companies or
may get fired. Whereas cooperation and coaction of the both groups cause
success and subsistence.

You would like to be whether one of
the 2.5% managers like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs who mix love and management or
one of the managers who believe that management is the hardest thing in the
world?